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Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of dissimilar types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons.
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The Industrial Revolution was a period from 1750 to 1850 where changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the social, economic and cultural conditions of the times.
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James Hargreaves invented Spinning Jenny
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In 1769, a man named Richard Arkwright invented the water frame. The water frame used water from rapid streams to drive the flying shuttles and the spinning jennys, thus reducing the work that workers had to perform.
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Thomas Savery invented the steam engine in 1781
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On January 26, 1788, a fleet of ships landed at what is now Sydney, Australia. These ships were under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip.
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Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
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Hobart is the second oldest capital after Sydney
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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph. He took the picture by setting up a machine called the camera obscura in the window of his home in France. It took eight hours for the camera to take the picture.
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Port Arthur closed this year officially. No more convicts were transported there for their punishment. Almost immediately the site was renamed Carnarvon. Years later it was opened as a tourist attraction, and is officially a historic site, to show the public the horrors of which the convicts had to bear with. It opened as a tourist attraction in the 1880's.
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American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter. Alows papers and books to be written more efficiently.
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Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle.
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Gold rushes had a huge effect on the Australian economy and our development as a nation.
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Alex Bell invented the Telephone
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The winning design for the australian flag was chosen
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World War 1 was centred in Europe, that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. Britain and Germany started the war.
